The point of the Economist article is that whereas previous technological shifts resulted in more but different low-skilled jobs, the current technological shift is likely to result in fewer, high-skilled jobs.
The Economist this week has a special report about how automation is going to make a lot of us unemployed, possibly in more permanent ways than previous industrial revolutions:
So if I can work out that in the past year you attended seven jazz gigs in your area, I shouldn't presume you might be interested in future jazz gigs in your area?
I'm not Mexican but I believe it's spelled "frijole"
A private domain for all the stuff you only want to share with close associates doesn't sound useful to you?
Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter results in my google searches are just noise that I have to filter out.
It was like this in the Tepito market in Mexico City in the 80s... as well as all the refurbished and stolen goods, if you had a broken walkman or whatever, there'd be some guy who could fix it for you. I miss the culture of repair.
It's also not great with disks of mixed size. For example, you can't create a 4TB mirror using a 4TB drive and 2x2TB drives (spanned). For home users, who will have a collection of mixed-size disks, you can do things, but it involves partitioning. I ended up doing something along the lines of this guy: http://tentacles666.wordpress....
Was he arrested for subversion? He should assure them he's a git user! *rimshot*
Episode 16: The missing TPS cover sheet
Outsourcing is probably less of a problem going forward than automation, which is increasingly replacing white collar jobs as it has done blue collar jobs previously. Even lawyers' work is being automated these days, especially profitable work that requires you to be a lawyer but is otherwise low-skilled.
I think your post constitutes a 100% increase in the number of times I've heard Opera mentioned this year.
I think I read about these guys in an H. P. Lovecraft novel.
Offshore your maintenance jobs to someone in the correct timezone!
All my telco worker friends grumble about being forced to praise their customers' horticultural skills on their site visits.
The paper states that animals would enter the wheel, leave it, and then re-enter it. That could be accidental but doesn't suggest escape.
Many people are unenthusiastic about their work.
